After you activate the Trial Edition of Application Real-Time Monitoring Service (ARMS), you can use all sub-services of ARMS. You can get a free trial of paid sub-services. If you want to continue using the sub-services after the free trial expires, you must activate the Basic Edition or Pro Edition. This topic describes how to activate the different editions of ARMS and how to purchase resource plans.
Prerequisites
An Alibaba Cloud account is created and real-name verification is passed.
Activate ARMS for free
If you use ARMS for the first time, perform the following steps to activate ARMS for free.
Go to the product page of ARMS. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Log In. Enter your Alibaba Cloud account and password to sign in to Alibaba Cloud.
On the product page of ARMS, click Apply. On the Application Real-Time Monitoring Service page, select Application Real-Time Monitoring Service Terms of Service and click Activate Now.
Upgrade a sub-service
After you activate ARMS for free, you can use the sub-services that are in public preview.
For a sub-service that is already launched, you can get a free trial. During the free trial period, you have a free quota each day. If the daily free quota of the sub-service is used up, the sub-service becomes unavailable. To continue to use the sub-service, you can wait until another free quota is allocated to you the next day, or activate the Basic or Pro Edition. After you activate the Pro Edition, you can purchase resource plans to reduce costs.
Sub-service | Billing rule | Activation link |
Application Monitoring | ||
Browser Monitoring | ||
Managed Service for Prometheus | ||
Alert Management | In public preview | |
Kubernetes Monitoring | In public preview |
Learn more
After you activate ARMS, read the following topics to get started with the monitoring features of ARMS:
Application Monitoring: Application Monitoring overview
Browser Monitoring: Browser Monitoring overview
Managed Service for Prometheus: Create a Prometheus instance to monitor an ACK cluster
Managed Service for Grafana: Create a Grafana workspace
Kubernetes Monitoring: Enable Kubernetes Monitoring for a Kubernetes cluster
Managed Service for OpenTelemetry: Preparations
Dashboard: Create a dashboard
Alert Management: Getting Started